Salil Chowdhury

A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.

Open details →

A woman, who belongs to a fisherman family, is dejected by the tragic deaths of her husband and her former lover. Angry with the sea goddess, the bereaved woman refuses to leave the shore.

Open details →

A managing director in Madras receives a letter from a childhood friend and begins to reminisce about his adolescent years, when he was growing up with his two friends in a village...

Open details →

After returning to his hometown, Gopi happens to meet Geetha and the two fall for each other. However, this does not bode well with Vikram, a good-for-nothing man, who is in love with Geetha.

Open details →

Raju, a young man, falls in love with Elizabeth, a beautiful woman, from his college. Though the couple start a life together, the doctor reveals to Raju that Elizabeth may not live long enough.

Open details →

Kokila, a medical student, and Vijayakumar, her paying guest, are in love and have plans to get married. However, her life changes the day Vijayakumar and her housemaid leave the house.

Open details →

Open details →

A British administrator with a flair for game hunting develops a friendship with a commoner who is an expert archer in an Indian village. The movie portrays the relationship between the British colonialists, and native villagers who were exploited by Indian landlords in 1920s India. This happens against the backdrop of the awakening of the Indian people against the British rule.

Open details →

Arun is a timid accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha, but is too shy to share his feelings. While Arun twiddles his thumbs, the suave Nagesh steps into the picture and turns on the heat, prompting Arun to take "love coaching" from "romance specialist" Julius Nagendranath to win Prabha back.

Open details →

A doctor learns he fathered a child years earlier and tries to save her from a life in prostitution.

Open details →

Raasaleela is a 1975 Malayalam-language Indian feature film, directed by N. Sankaran Nair and produced by Carmel Johny for RJD Films, starring Kamal Haasan and Jayasudha. It is a remake of the Tamil film Unarchigal, which also starred Kamal Haasan, but got released before the original.

Open details →

1975 film.

Open details →

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Open details →

On his pilgrimage to a temple to immerse the ashes of his mother in the sacred river, Rakhavan befriends a tribal family. He comes across the lives of the tribal people and their struggle.

Open details →

Viswanathan hopes to marry Gowri, but she is waiting for her lover Bindu, a poet; heartbreak ensues when Bindu returns as a greedy businessman who has abandoned his art, leading Gowri to choose Viswanathan instead.

Open details →

A rich man who is disillusioned with his greedy relatives leaves his house and wanders off. He finds true happiness when he meets Aarti, who lives in a small town among simple folks.

Open details →

Old woman Anandi moves to the city with her relatives and finds out their material side. She develops fondness for two rival street gangs of unemployed youth. These gangs are headed by two former friends turned foes in a time when society, politics and education are all losing their bearings in 1970s India.

Open details →

Dr. Bhaskar Bannerjee struggles with his patients' suffering and the darkness and poverty he confronts daily. He treats cancer patient Anand who upon learning of his impending death determines to use the time he has left to the absolute fullest.

Open details →

Karutthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, falls in love with a Muslim fish trader. However, social prejudices seem to ruin their love life and invite the wrath of their communities.

Open details →

Dr. Arun lives with his brother, Madhu; dad Judge Ramkrishan; and mom Kamla in a palatial house. He decides to help the poor and the needy and in order to do this he re-locates to a small town, where he meets with a young nurse named Sumati and both fall in love with each other. Sumati lives with her mom, Laxmi, and has no father. When Kamla starts looking for a prospective bride for Arun, he informs her that he has given his heart to Sumati. Ramkrishan sends for Laxmi, who gladly accepts the invitation. After her meeting, Arun inquires about the results with his mom and dad, and is told to forget about Sumati and marry someone else. When Arun asks for a reason behind their refusal, they refuse to divulge any information. The question remains, why did his parents turn down Sumati's mom, and what exactly happened during that meeting with her?

Open details →

Arun begins hating Kavita when he loses his scholarship due to a misunderstanding with her. But after his new fiancé asks Kavita to write Arun letters on her behalf, Kavita falls in love with him. An accident intertwines their futures.

Open details →

A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.

Open details →

Disillusioned with his wealthy friends, a man pretends to be poor and goes to live in the slums where he falls in love with a burglar's sister.

Open details →

Memdidi tells a simple and endearing story of Mrs. Roy (Memdidi), who moves in as a new neighbor to the two local tough guys, Bahadur Singh (David) and Sher Khan (Jayant), with a heart of gold. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's direction and screenplay makes this movie a gem and worth watching again and again.

Open details →

The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.

Open details →

Two men take shelter in a derelict mansion situated in the countryside during a storm. One of the men suddenly becomes aware that he once visited this mansion in a past life; he recounts a story about when he was Anand, a painter, who fell in love with a tribal girl named Madhumati.

Open details →

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

Open details →

A wealthy man, suspected of murder, is killed before he can be arrested. Everyone in his household is under suspicion. A private investigator looks into the case and finds himself falling in love with one of the suspects.

Open details →

The stories of three sets of people, linked by their connection to an old suburban house in Calcutta- An orphaned young woman who desperately wants her husband to make up with his estranged parents so that she may belong to a family once more, a wayward young man desperate to find a job to support his aged father and his widowed sister-in-law, and a shadowy neighbourhood ‘madman’

Open details →

Deeply influenced by leftist ideology, this film dealt with social and political themes: A poor village boy's hazardous experience in a rich urban family.

Open details →

The comic, tragic and heartrending saga of Ratan Kumar Chaudhary, who leaves his village, aging mom and seriously ill sister, to obtain employment in Calcutta, only to end up in a tiny tenement apartment full of other unemployed youths.

Open details →